Danaho Refining Company v. Dietz

GREEN, Chief Justice.

Six plaintiffs, all former employees of appellant Danaho Refining Company, joined in one petition to bring suit for breach of a contract alleged to have been made in the latter part of 1952 between appellant and its employees at its plant near Beeville, Texas, to pay annually as a part of their salary or wages a Christmas bonus equal to one month’s salary. It was plaintiffs’ contention that this contract remained a binding legal obligation of defendant for the entire period of their employment, which terminated as to each in 1962, when defendant closed its plant in Bee…